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2016 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 101
BY SENATOR CORTEZ
LEGIS POWERS/FUNCTIONS. Recognizes Wednesday, May 11, 2016, as Ports Day at
the state capitol.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To recognize Wednesday, May 11, 2016, as Ports Day at the state capitol.
3 WHEREAS, Louisiana has an abundant and robust port system ranging from ports
4 along the Mississippi, Calcasieu, Red, Atchafalaya, and Ouachita rivers, the Louisiana coast,
5 and inland waterways extending to all areas of the state; and
6 WHEREAS, Louisiana ports support domestic and international trade, carry
7 twenty-five percent of United States waterborne commerce, support nearly twenty percent
8 of oil and gas service and exploration, and commercial fishing industries, and provide
9 specific services to the communities in which they are located; and
10 WHEREAS, services provided at these ports help sustain local, regional, and
11 statewide economies; and
12 WHEREAS, Louisiana ports are also a point of connection between producers of
13 products in the state and buyers of products throughout the country and the world; and
14 WHEREAS, each port offers unique advantages and helps to encourage industrial
15 development, directly and indirectly providing jobs to local citizens and revenues to local
16 governments; and
17 WHEREAS, Louisiana's agricultural, petrochemical, food, paper, wood, and
18 fabricated metal products industries rely on Louisiana ports to move their goods in national
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1 and global trade, and are dependent on and supported by Louisiana ports that support five
2 hundred twenty-five thousand Louisiana jobs, or one in five Louisiana jobs, produce
3 thirty-three billion dollars in personal earnings, and four billion two hundred million dollars
4 in state and local tax revenue; and
5 WHEREAS, Louisiana's ports assets have grown by almost six hundred million
6 dollars in the last decade, and ports' businesses and tenants serving port cargo, cruise, and
7 support operations employ and support seventy-seven thousand additional jobs, produce over
8 four billion dollars in personal earnings, two-hundred ninety-eight million dollars in state
9 taxes, and two hundred thirty-five million dollars in local taxes; and
10 WHEREAS, the Port Construction and Development Priority Program has
11 significantly supported the building of port infrastructure and for each one dollar of funding
12 to the program, Louisiana receives eight dollars in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits; and
13 WHEREAS, despite uncertain funding, to remain competitive, Louisiana ports are
14 planning approximately ninety-two projects costing one billion eight hundred million dollars
15 over the next five years which is supported by the 2015 Statewide Transportation Plan that
16 recommends the investment of seven billion six hundred million dollars in port infrastructure
17 and waterways.
18 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
19 does hereby recognize Wednesday, May 11, 2016, as Ports Day at the state capitol and does
20 hereby express its appreciation of the economic importance of ports to the Louisiana
21 economy.
22 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
23 Ports Association of Louisiana and to each port, harbor, and terminal district in the state.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Sharon F. Lyles.
DIGEST
SR 101 Original 2016 Regular Session Cortez
Recognizes Wednesday, May 11, 2016, as Ports Day at the state capitol.
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